Forgotten Weapons Q&A November 2015

Never thought I'd see an imac sitting next to hand grenades and a 1911.

I love the ME tech background. doing math homework can only take you so far. doing actual hands on machining, casting, and engineering design is fantastic.

Hi Ian, I really enjoyed this Q&A video. The breadth of questions and the opportunity for you to answer them at length was really nice. I have signed up to support you with Paetron just because I love hearing you talk about cool and interesting guns. When I saw the length of the video (41 minutes), I wondered if it would keep my interest for that long. It did, and did it well. I thoroughly enjoyed all of it, much more than I enjoy 99% of what is on TV today. I really think this is the future of "infotainment", where fans directly support people producing high quality video articles about things both the fan and producer share an interest in. It is very clear to me you love what you are doing. Keep up the outstanding work. I always look forward to hearing about the new and unusual guns you have found to show us. The best part about Forgotten Weapons is when I see the title and go, "I have never seen or heard anything about that gun." I love watching those videos for the "wow, that's neat," "huh, I wouldn't that thought of that" and the "Nice, I learned something" factors. All the best. Kerry

These Q&A videos are my favorite videos that you do simply because they're so long which means I get 40 minutes of interesting content instead of just maybe 10 or fifteen minutes with a regular video. I really enjoy the channel.

Being a fan of Forgotten Weapons, let me say thank you to those who contribute on Patreon, as I cannot.

I always loved that this channel is immortalizing forgotten history for future generations. Very altruistic and noble.

The best way to find affordable "forgotten" weapons is to look over gun shops with a cell phone to reference values, and to give you an idea of whether or not the rifle is correct. I've ran across a few cool guns that way, most notably a Krieghoff Mauser with a quite nicely carved stock.

It's amazing how I can sit for 40 minutes straight, drinking tea, chainsmoking, listening to a jesus looking guy talking about old firearms, and remain genuinely interested. Cheers Ian, you should be a teacher or something. :D

Always great to hear your opinion on things, Ian. this is one of my favorite channels on YouTube.

+Forgotten Weapons Ian, grats on reaching over 1000 Patreon patrons!

I've heard the Owen smg was also pretty much a garage built gun to begin with.

I love The Mosin-Nagant, and I have worked on loads of them. Honestly I love the engineering more then shooting them. I do like the fact they you have to engage & meet great people in order to learn this craft. I greatly enjoy that you explore a gun in all of is aspects. History, and it's engineering. I would ask you to do a show on the Mosin-Nagent, as it has such a history, and I will give you that it is not a "Forgotten Weapon" Kids who play games, or who use one as a cost effective deer rifle know little about the rich history of this weapon, and that it's not all the 91/30. Again I thank you for your content, and am gladly subscribed, and will ask friends to do the same.

I gotta say that Forgotten Weapons is one of my favorite "gun channels". You are a very good presenter, and your subject is fascinating. I don't have any particular desire to own the weapons you review, but I do find many of them quite interesting. Keep up the good work!

Got me a Swiss k31 for 300CAD, they are beautiful somewhat forgotten rifles that are not that uncommon. Which was part of the appeal for me as I can get a good amount of ammo for it for not much more than surplus 7.62x54R(Rimmed for the extractors pleasure). Thank you Ian for putting all this knowledge on the internet for everybody, as cheesy as it sounds you are making the world a better place.

I have a Star 30M handgun I purchased relatively cheap for doing the pistol tactical classes. I had features not seen on more modern guns until years later, like the slide that rode inside the frame. Very well made and very accurate. It was the Spanish military pistol for for yrs.

I would love to have shootable reproductions of: -Gabbett-Fairfax-Mars Pistol -Volcanic Pistol -Schönberger-Laumann Pistol, -Early Bergmanns  Pistol -in available cartridges -Mauser 06/08 Next to the Schwarzlose 1898 pistol, you mentioned already.

Very cool and informative stuff, Ian. It was especially cool getting to know your background a bit. Thank you for all the content and dedication.

Soon the Taurus "CURVE" will be a Forgotten Weapon!  : )Great Channel....thanks.

I see a lot of people talking about the AR being a poor decision for trench warfare due to perceived reliability issues. What they aren't taking into consideration is the daily cleaning of rifles after the morning hate. This would greatly reduce the probability of a catastrophic malfunction, as if properly maintained an AR platform rifle is pretty reliable

one of the best channels on youtube right here! Thanks Ian, for providing such an awesome, informational channel, that us Gun aficionado can slobber over. We all greatly appreciate it! You're awesome